broken Muzak kept playing the same song over and over

[Palsgraf]

I guess it technically isn't "Muzak," but the restaurant sound system is supposed to play a variety of songs in random order.

Instead, it just kept playing the same one again and again and again.

I noticed it immediately.

Others (who just tune that stuff out) didn't.


Because I'm evil, this was my first thought:

I couldn't wait to get a table of guests I just didn't like, so I could point it out to them ... and drive them crazy!

Heh heh heh.

[bainsidhe]

I couldn't wait to get a table of guests I just didn't like, so I could point it out to them ... and drive them crazy!.

If you didn't spork out your own eyes first, you mean? That's why I hate Christmas music. Musak kills one's love for all "popular yet safe" music. And the same song! Oh...helll....no.

[Zoom]

2009 was the year my store started playing its very short music playlist in alphabetical order, with artist duplication (i.e. 3 songs by John Mellencamp in a row)... this lasted for almost a month, until enough people complained that it didn't sound right. (There is a REASON radio stations never did this. They like to sound like they have more variety than they actually do.)

Edit: Oh, and Billy Joel. Guess which of his three songs in a row on our playlist is most popular. Yup, the one that starts "Anthony works in a grocery store..."

[Lots42]

At one Universal Studios eatery, the one on Marvel Comics island, I had a pleasent time because the food was awesome and so were the songs.

The next visit the food was awesome and the songs...were the same. What a coincidence.

I had time. I listened. All the songs were on the theme of 'Heroes' and on a LOOP OMG WTF the poor employees. That shit is how they torture prisoners for fuck's sake.

[Moggie]

Back in the day when I was a much poorer house cat, I worked at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in the boardwalk section of the park. Imagine a surf movie setting with Frankie and Annette around the corner somewhere near the ferris wheel and rollerskating rentals.
In general, I'm a fan of surf rock and those '40's, '50's and '60's hits that they loaded into our area player. There was only one song I really couldn't stand, the 1964 Wayne Cochran hit "Last Kiss". Why anyone would want to continually play this song about a horrific car crash over and over in a perky happy summertime sort of place escaped me.
Thanks to that song though, I knew exactly how long the music cycle was. We started over on the same set of tunes every 45 min. For a 9 hour shift. How I'm as sane as I am still amazes me.

[Soulstealer]

And here I thought you were calling my bank. Same damn song which would get interrupted every few minutes to tell me to stay on hold then the song would start over. It was crappy quality, staticky, and I never did get to hear the end of the song.

[tropicsgoddess]

The place I worked at had 2 live bands come in during the week and both bands would almost always play the same freakin' songs (50's -70's oldies) !!!!

[mattm04]

After a several week hiatus our store muzak returned after a surge killed the music part of the PA. Thankfully this was just before Christmas. really, really crappy Christmas music over and over and over and over and over

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Palsgraf, I need to know: what song was it?

Many, many years ago, some members of our gaming club were playing football in the empty lot next to the building. They put the club's stereo speakers up to the window and cranked the music.

Then someone with an evil sense of humour went back into the club and set the CD to replay one song.

Two hours of Spice Girls' "Wannabe" ensued...

[Lindsey]

Ah, broken playlist. That's when you hurry up and go on break so you can hide behind your earbuds for fifteen minutes and break the cycle.

... At least, until you come back from break, and an hour later it's still repeating the same song.

Oh, and Billy Joel. Guess which of his three songs in a row on our playlist is most popular. Yup, the one that starts "Anthony works in a grocery store..."

Me too, and I work in a pet store! Billy Joel is the one exception I make for "repetition is hell", though. I love him too much.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Edit: Oh, and Billy Joel. Guess which of his three songs in a row on our playlist is most popular. Yup, the one that starts "Anthony works in a grocery store..."

If that song ever got stuck in endless repetition at the swamp, I think I'd have a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.

[XCashier]

If that song ever got stuck in endless repetition at the swamp, I think I'd have a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.

I love Billy Joel too, but even the best songs get irritating after too many repetitions.

[Lindsey]

If that song ever got stuck in endless repetition at the swamp, I think I'd have a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.

But you oughta know by noooow... right?

[Zoom]

Worse, they started playing the song at my store the moment we hired a bagger named Anthony. He didn't get what I was trying to tell him, because he somehow couldn't hear the music at the bagger spot. And when I finally mentioned it was the Billy Joel song "Movin' Out" and even sang it so he would hear it, he just shrugged and said he wasn't offended. Offended?

[Iris Kojiro]

Agreed on the song repetition point. Certain songs by Heart and Fleetwood Mac have moved into the "overplayed" pile due to endless repetition.

I always like the days where the muzak doesn't work. I love the sound of silence at a store.